Günther Lutz

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Günther Lutz (born August 5, 1910 in Kiel , † March 7, 1946 in Weimar ) was a German National Socialist and lecturer in philosophy at the University of Greifswald .

Life

Lutz was involved in the National Socialist movement from an early age. While still at school, he founded the first Pomeranian Hitler Youth (HJ) in Stettin in September 1927 and became HJ Gauleiter of Pomerania / Grenzmark on November 1, 1927 . In 1929 he became cultural advisor in the Reich leadership of the HJ and received the golden HJ decoration. Furthermore, he founded the NS student union in Stettin in 1930 and the “Jungwerk” ( German Tatjugend ) in 1931 , in which he was Gauführer . Due to the wide range of activities, Lutz had to repeat a class at school twice. He joined the NSDAP on April 1, 1931 (membership number 516 786). From the summer semester of 1931 he was a member of the National Socialist German Student Union . In addition, he was a member of the SA (Sturm 12) in Stettin from April 1931 to November 1931 and became a member of the SS on March 1, 1933 (No. 107,464), where he achieved the rank of Untersturmführer in 1937 .

After graduating from high school in 1931, Lutz studied German, philosophy and theology at the universities of Berlin, Greifswald and Rostock. The dissertation on the “community experience in war literature”, with which he received his doctorate in Greifswald with Wolfgang Stammler and Walther Schultze-Soelde , he “dedicated to Reinhard Heydrich ”. About the subsequently planned work “Foundation of a National Socialist Community Science”, in which he as a research project of the DFG “ Ontology , essence and shape of the ns. Community, and its position within the philosophical disciplines ”, there were no publications. In the autumn of 1937, Lutz was involved in "investigations into the psychophysical constitution, occupation and life performance of outstanding personalities of the 19th century" at the hereditary biological institute of the Reich Health Office . After working as a consultant in the SD main office at the end of 1937 , Lutz received a teaching position as a lecturer in philosophy at the University of Greifswald on April 1, 1938 without habilitation . Before August 1940 he took over the “Scientific Literature” department in the Propaganda Ministry. From October 1, 1942, he became senior group leader of the main "Scientific literature" department in the "Scientific observation and evaluation" office of the Rosenberg office .

From 1940 he was involved in the editorial management of the journals "Deutscher Wissenschaftlicher Dienst" and "Europäische Wissenschafts-Dienst", which had the same content for a long time. From 1940 Walther Wüst vom Ahnenerbe of the SS, from 1942 Wilhelm Ziegler from the Propaganda Ministry , Rudolf Mentzel from the DFG , Paul Ritterbusch for the Reich Ministry of Education , Gustav Adolf Scheel as Reich student leader , Ludwig Siebert for the German Academy and Theodor Vahlen as head of the Reich Academy of Sciences and from 1944 Walter Groß from the Rosenberg office involved. Another project was the revival of the Kant studies , which were published for the last time in 1937 and whose new editors as "Kant Studies New Series" were in 1942 alongside Lutz, the regime-loyal philosophers August Faust , Hans Heyse and Ferdinand Weinhandl .

The only major work in 1941 was a contribution to the anthology published by Theodor Haering as part of the Ritterbusch campaign , “The German in German Philosophy” on Friedrich Nietzsche . Initially a member of the Nietzsche Archive , Lutz was a member of the board of the Nietzsche Society from 1942 to 1945 at Richard Oehler's suggestion .

After the end of the war, Lutz was arrested in Weimar on November 14, 1945, sentenced to death by a Soviet military tribunal on February 21, 1946 for war crimes, and shortly afterwards executed by shooting. Lutz's work Die Front-Gemeinschaft (Hans Adler, Greifswald 1936) was placed on the list of literature to be segregated in the Soviet occupation zone .

Fonts

  • The communal experience in war literature . (Phil. Diss.), Hans Adler, Greifswald 1936
  • Science as a national necessity. War effort, task and future of German science . In: German Scientific Service. 1/10, 1940, pp. 1-2
  • The hour of science . In: European Science Service. 1/16, 1941, pp. 1-2
  • Mussolini on Nietzsche. For Nietzsche's 97th birthday on October 15th . In: German Scientific Service. 61, 1941, pp. 1-2
  • Nietzsche . In: Theodor Haering (Ed.): The German in German Philosophy. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Berlin 1941 [2. Ed. 1943], pp. 449-487.
  • [Rec .:] Thyssen: The philosophical relativism […]. In: Kant studies. NF 43, pp. 305-309.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ For the biographical information see: George Leaman, Gerd Simon: The Kant studies in the Third Reich. In: Kant studies. Volume 85, 1994, pp. 443–469, pdf pages 28–29, as well as Christian Tilitzkis: The University Philosophy in the Weimar Republic and in the Third Reich. Akademie, Berlin 2002, especially pp. 895–897.
  2. ↑ a b Lothar Mertens : “Only politically worthy people”. DFG research funding in the Third Reich 1933–1937. Academy, Berlin 2004, p. 347.
  3. ↑ Andreas Weigelt, Klaus-Dieter Müller, Thomas Schaarschmidt, Mike Schmeitzner (all ed.): Death sentences of Soviet military tribunals against Germans (1944-1947): A historical-biographical study. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2015, p. 430, ISBN 9783647369686
  4. ↑ List of Thuringians sentenced to death by Soviet and GDR courts (pdf)
  5. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1946-nslit-l.html
personal data
SURNAME Lutz, Günther
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German National Socialist and lecturer in philosophy at the University of Greifswald
DATE OF BIRTH August 5, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiel
DATE OF DEATH March 7, 1946
Place of death Weimar